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Master Time Management in Three Fast and Easy Ways

Time management is the essence of being successful, in whatever you do. It is the least-mastered and most-preferred skill to achieve ultimate success in today’s fast-moving world.  Looking to double your time management skills – not a big deal, you will require following some easy steps to make most of your time.

Follow the Golden Rules to Double Your Time Management Skills:-

Identify the Time-Wasters:

Know what’s killing of your time. Time-wasters are things that soak your precious hours.  Given the choice, you may not have chosen to do those things you spend time doing them anyway. Identify and eliminate these time-wasters and set time aside for better jobs.

If you spend 30 minutes each day on emails, on an average, you’re sparing them too much of your time.  Do them unless they’re necessary and one of the business requirements.

Attending telephones for more than 5 minutes during your productive time (work, work at home, etc.) kills your productivity, efficiency and puts a check on your time management skills.

It’s better not to spend 30 minutes per day on watching television – it should be limited for you to achieve ultimate control over time, if you want to get all the things done in timely fashion.

Make To-do Lists:

Do up a list of all important things in your life that you need to give attention to and start working towards them. A crucial key to mastering time management is prioritization – you absolutely must know what you want to accomplish and then go do it. You can get distracted by several things in life – our fast-paced world has too many of them to offer.  When you allow those distractions to become priority, you sacrifice time management.

Things to Include in Your Priority List:-

Make a list of your major goals in life.

After you jot down the things to accomplish, assign them a set time frame.

Prioritize the items you wish to achieve in order of importance.

Then start thinking about respective game plans for achieving each of your goals in its already scheduled time frame.

Stick to Your Goals:

Start focusing on time management throughout the course of the day. Keep working on them continually, once you’ve set future goals and your priorities.  Adhere to the prioritization of the tasks and don’t look into things that aren’t there in your weekly lists. When you attend to every interruption that occurs and pushes your goals aside, you’re never too close to your realizing them. That makes you a slave to interruptions and you probably feel like you never accomplish enough.

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Three Deadly Sins Of Procrastinating

Are you procrastinating? If the answer is yes, congratulations to you, you are a huge step ahead of the procrastination crowd, simply by acknowledging your habit.

For most of us though we do not even realise that we are doing it. I know what I am talking about, because I too had fallen into this Procrastinating trap.

Alas, neither I or most people who know me would think that I had that debilitating habit. I always seemed to be doing something, always be on the go and always had these brilliant ideas. I would start a new project but seldom see it through, or achieve the success I was capable of, My mind would wander everywhere, not dissimilar to A.D.D., but the big point is I did not know what I was doing.

Obviously here we have problem number one: If you think you are okay and do not recognise a habit which is hindering your progress at best and downright self sabotaging at worst, you are headed for lifelong trouble and you do not know why.

Why is it so difficult to recognise a problem? Well many a habit comes in different guises. One of the many guises of Procrastination is impulse action.

Now we already have problem number two: The seasoned procrastinator will often swing between resistance to taking action and sudden impulse behaviour. To the outsider the procrastinator is an action person.

However, inside the procrastinating mind a very different story unfolds: Doubt about the action sets in almost the moment after it has been performed. Worse still, if things do not move in the direction one has anticipated straight away, the ensuing self doubt can be an absolute killer. If you are familiar with short term trading you will know what this kind of mind set will do to you.

Indeed a prerequisite for any profession that requires consistent, immediately measurable action, is consistent and confident action. Anyone in sales for instance falls into this category and so do most people in managerial positions where regular confident assessment of problem areas and decision making are the order of the day.

Problem number three, yes, you guessed correctly is the opposite of problem number two, namely painful indecision and inaction.In other words, procrastination as we understand it in the literal sense.It is there for all and sundry to see. I am always amazed how many managers have this behaviour trait. They seem to take ages to make any decision and worse still they are very clever in their evasiveness and pass the buck to someone else.

I hardly need to point out what this type of leadership does for the morale of the staff. Whatever type of procrastination you may display there are always hidden, suppressed fears, guilt or traumas, probably from early childhood, which created the problem in the first place. If you recognise yourself in one of the above descriptions you may have been suffering with procrastination all your life.

There are a number of very effective techniques that deal effectively and quickly with eliminating procrastination problems.In my mind the quickest and safest way is the use of Energy Psychology. You may want to seek out a practitioner you trust, or start off with some of the self help books which are available on the subject.

The key to any self improvement is always recognition and intent to change, and finally taking some form of action. It is action that eventually gets the ball rolling. You can think about it, have wonderful visions about it, or meditate on the subject till you heart is content, in the final analysis it is only some type of action that will get you to achieve your goal.

Therefore, if you think you fall into any of the above procrastination groups, or perhaps all of them, take action, get a book, do a workshop, or book a one-to-one session with a trusted professional. Everyone can improve their life, so be kind to yourself and take the right action.

Do you put off things until the last minute? Do you Psychologist Dr. Greg Cason tells you why people procrastinate and helps you to stop! This clip was originally aired March 31, 2008.
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The Three Strangest Reasons For Procrastination

Have you ever wondered why you procrastinate? Procrastination is indeed a very strange behaviour and is a trap that all of us tend to fall into from time to time. On a conscious level you might want to do something or achieve something and although you know what you have to do, you still can’t seem to get yourself to actually do it. It’s almost like there is some ‘invisible force’ that prevents you from taking action and you can’t quite explain what it is – from a rational perspective at least.

Although it might appear that there is no logical explanation for this seemingly irrational behaviour, there are still reasons for procrastination. These reasons, however are not always that obvious. Human behaviour is not haphazard or coincidental – everything we do we do for a reason. In fact, everything we do, we do for a positive intent. Everything that you do is driven by your desire to improve your circumstances at some level of your consciousness. It is impossible for someone to do something that she believes will leave her worse off. For some people this might mean killing themselves, while for others it might mean climbing a mountain, while for others it might mean giving up a bad habit. It all varies according to our beliefs.

This is a very important concept to understand if you are to understand the reasons for procrastination. Although there are many reasons on the surface as to why you procrastinate, the underlying reason always boils down to one factor: FEAR. Fear is what shuts you down and prevents you from taking action. By design fear is there to ‘help’ you and whenever you fear something you will be compelled to prevent an encounter with whatever you fear.

Although fear is the underlying factor behind procrastination, we tend to see certain common fears amongst procrastinators. Here are the three most common reasons for procrastination and the fears that we subconsciously attach to them:

Fear #1: The Fear Of Failure

When you fear failure you are inclined to avoid participating in the first place. The common association is that ‘if I don’t do it, then I can’t fail and no one can judge me’. This is very prominent amongst procrastinators and they often hide behind the perfectionism frame. They will wait for things to be perfect until they take action, so they keep postponing tasks waiting for the ‘right time’ before they take action. Out of the fear of failing and looking bad, they would often spend vast amounts of time on a project without making any real progress because at a subconscious level they don’t ‘want to’ finish – a finished project will make them vulnerable for criticism and consequently failure. The result is that they always find ‘good reasons’ to postpone or even avoid the tasks all together.

Fear #2: The Fear Of Unpleasant Or Painful Experiences

If you believe that some action will lead to a painful or unpleasant experience then you will feel compelled not to do it. Your nervous system is designed to avoid painful experiences. The ironic thing is that we get to decide what we believe, and what will be ‘painful’ experiences. Unfortunately for most of us, our beliefs were ‘installed’ by default and we learned by association. Through experience we ‘learned’ by our results and we tend to use this limited information form (mostly) past experiences to make up future meanings and we start imagining potential consequences to the point where we actually believe them. If you believe that some action will lead to a painful or unpleasant experience, you will avoid it, regardless of whether your association is accurate or not. What you believe is what’s real for you and this is what you will act upon.

Fear #3: The Fear Of Missing Out

In the frenzy of modern living we all want to get a piece of the action. We simply cannot help it. Every day we get bombarded with numerous opportunities and it seems like the media’s sole mission is to get our attention. The challenge is that we don’t want to miss out – no one wants to be left behind and miss out on what everybody else is gaining from. The challenge with this is that we tend to take on way too much, to the point where we get overwhelmed. When you feel overwhelmed, the natural reaction is to shut down and the result is usually procrastination. When you overload yourself with too many things that you ‘have to do’ you simply cannot deal with all of it and procrastination comes to your ‘aid’. Like a breaker switch in an electric current, procrastination will kick in when the load becomes too heavy.

These three factors are by no means the only reasons for procrastination, but it is definitely some of the most common. An awareness of these fears in itself can help you to overcome procrastination. Realize that F.E.A.R is only an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real and most of your fears are only imaginary. You can break through your fears and take action. It is your ultimate power to direct and steer your life. Don’t allow procrastination and indecision to keep you immobilized. Keep moving forward. Keep taking action.

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Three Truly Liberating Procrastination Tips

Are you immobilized by procrastination and indecision? We all know that it is impossible to steer a car that’s not moving and the same is true with your life. You simply cannot direct and steer your life if you are immobilized by procrastination and indecision. It is what prevents you from doing the very things you need to do to make progress.

This debilitating behavior, or shall I say lack of behavior, is responsible for destroying so many dreams and aspirations. Action is the proper fruit of knowledge and doing what you ‘know’ is often much harder than knowing ‘what’ to do. This is actually a very accurate description of procrastination. It is the frustrating pattern of wanting to (consciously), knowing how to, but not doing it. It is the lack of action that keeps you from moving forward and making progress. Frustration sets in when you know you can do something, but still you don’t, and this frustration can easily turn into anger, a loss of self confidence and even depression.

If you are the kind of person who’s actively improving and developing yourself, then there’s usually a gap between where you are and where you want to be. The only way to close this gap is to take action; to act on your desire for change and self improvement. For this very reason you simply cannot afford to be stuck in procrastination. You must take action and liberate yourself from the disempowering effects of procrastination.

Procrastination is not so much a behavior as it is a way of thinking. The real problem is with your psychology and not with your behavior – the behavior is only the symptom. To liberate yourself from procrastination you must liberate yourself from the inside. It’s an internal shift that’s necessary and once you make the internal shift, it will automatically spill over into your actions. Here are three powerful procrastination tips that will help you liberate yourself from its immobilizing effects.

1. Detach Yourself From Your Behavior.

Realize that you are not your behavior. As soon as you start identifying with a behavior you become it. Just because you procrastinate at times does not make you a procrastinator – unless you believe it. One of the strongest forces within the human personality is for your behavior to be consistent with your self concept. Once you believe that you are a ‘procrastinator’ all your actions will be filtered through this belief. Since all beliefs are self-reinforcing you will only strengthen this belief with your (in)action.

Instead, you must start by building a positive self image and develop empowering beliefs. Choose different ways of defining yourself and forget about what you’ve done up until now. This is a fresh moment and you can change everything around, right now, by changing your beliefs about yourself.

2. You Don’t Have To Get It Perfect – You Just Have To Get It Started

One of the major causes for procrastination is this notion of wanting to get everything perfect. For some it even goes as far as waiting for the ‘perfect time’ before they take action. Underneath this need to get things perfect lies the fear of failure and how your results will reflect on you. See, when you do nothing, nobody can judge or criticize you. Right? Wrong!

If you do nothing you will get nowhere. This universe is one that is driven by action. There are NO rewards for inaction. Only frustration and a longing for something that you know you can achieve, ‘if only you do it’. Instead of making perfection your goal, you should make ‘starting’ your goal. As you do this and practice it you will soon discover the real secret: once you start, you build momentum and you end up doing much more than you ever intended to do when you set out to just get it started.

Perfection does not exist. Don’t be misguided by the illusion that you have to get it perfect. It’s a weak excuse and one that will keep you immobilized. Liberate yourself and strive for a ‘poor’ result – that way you cannot be disappointed!

3. Change Your Perception

One of the most profound teachings that have its roots in eastern philosophy, is that when you change the way you look at things, things change. This idea can free you from virtually anything that might be holding you down. All of life relies on perception. What you ‘take in’ with your senses are nothing but a vast array of sounds, colors, shapes, images and smells. None of it has any meaning in itself. You are the one that can give it meaning, and you are the one that gets to decide how you interpret this information.

Procrastination is nothing but a way of evaluating something and assigning a meaning to it that keeps you from taking action. At some level, mostly subconscious, you believe that taking action will be more painful than not taking action and by design; you will prevent yourself from taking action.

This is one of the most powerful procrastination tips and you can liberate yourself by starting to change the way you look at the things that you are procrastinating about. Ask yourself ‘what else can this mean’ and instead of saying that you ‘have to do it’ – say that you ‘choose to do it’. The difference is subtle, but significant. Change the way you look at things and the things will change.

These three procrastination tips are by no means the begin all and end all of overcoming procrastination, but it will most certainly help to liberate you from being immobilized by procrastination and indecision.

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